Shambolics - Love Collides — AliveandGigging

Shambolics are a four piece Fife based dreamy rock band, they are Lewis McDonald (vocals/guitar), Darren Forbes (vocals/guitar), Jordan McHatton (vocals/bass) and Jake Bain (vocals/drums).

Already firm favourites on Scottish turf, the four piece have become accustomed to selling out venues like St Lukes in Glasgow and The Water Rats in London in a heartbeat.

With word spreading fast since their signing to Creation 23, last year the band sold out their entire 7” vinyl run for debut single Chasing A Disaster on pre-sales alone, before being greeted by a sell out UK headline tour in the Autumn.

They then followed that up with the release of Fight Another Feeling in December last year and Sandra Speed released just before lockdown this year.

Not ones to sit still, the Shambolics preoccupied themselves during the pandemic with a series of classic cover versions in their distinctly dreamy style, including Fleetwood Mac’s Everywhere, The Weeknd’s Blinding Lights, ABBA’s Mamma Mia and The Rolling Stones’ Sympathy for the Devil, finding a raft of new fans with their uplifting reworkings.

And so to their latest single Love Collides, which is released today, Friday 2 October. It was recorded at Eggman Studios in the band’s hometown of Fife, and produced and engineered by Darren Forbes, Scott Thomson, and Scott Williamson.

Love Collides is a fast paced piece of rock’n’roll brilliance, clocking in at just over the three and a half minute mark it takes us on a rollercoaster of a journey, with some huge guitar riffs and frenetic drumming driving this track from start to finish, it will pick you up and give you a slap on the face to make sure you are listening.

The track describes that narrow precipice that you have to tread when a relationship is on the rocks, the instrumentation throughout just creates drama in every powerful beat. This is described perfectly with the verse “changing, changing everything you see, changing how it used to be, forever, ever going wrong, falling, falling in the trap again, you try your best to pretend that it's never, ever going wrong”.

Love Collides works perfectly, it has emotion, drama, key changes and some fabulous rip roaring guitar solos, it’s how a rock’n’roll track should be written and the track will only enhance the reputation of Shambolics who are one of the best up and coming bands in Scotland and the UK.

Give Love Collides a stream now:

https://open.spotify.com/album/0zmbBqdTbxo0gDqG7GzJpu?si=jqnpe5IoRmGazqgElPF3GQ

Watch the official video below: